The easiest way to think about China is, remember how in the 1980s the US feared Showa Japan economically and Soviet Russia militarily?
China today is relatively stronger than 1980s Japan and Russia combined.
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China today is relatively stronger than 1980s Japan and Russia combined.
Did the wife tried to save him apart from yelling at the cops? At least one officer supposedly tried to get a boat. In every profession one's own safety comes first, there can be valid reasons why they couldn't help immediately but camera did not show what happened afterwards.
I think Eileen Gu still has her American passport. China made an exemption for her to join the national team because she's a special case (i.e. best player in the sport). She's not the only one getting a free pass though if you look at the hockey team lol..
IMO it's not a big deal. Everyone should follow the rules on paper but sometimes there are special circumstances where the authorities need to bend the rules a bit in order to achieve something more.
I do agreed with @daifo that Chinese media promoted Gu excessively to the detriment of local athletes. Should have given balanced coverage of ALL the athletes on the national team. In hindsight, the media putting her on the pedestal (like a female Jesus coming to save China) is unnecessary..
IMO it's not a big deal. Everyone should follow the rules on paper but sometimes there are special circumstances where the authorities need to bend the rules a bit in order to achieve something more.
I do agreed with @daifo that Chinese media promoted Gu excessively to the detriment of local athletes. Should have given balanced coverage of ALL the athletes on the national team. In hindsight, the media putting her on the pedestal (like a female Jesus coming to save China) is unnecessary..
Olympics itself is a business too
She is popular, so she gets the coverage
Becomes a self-perpetuating cycle
If she blew it, then the media would try to promote someone else
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Eileen Gu put all the China haters in their place. That alone made her more worthy of promotion than 99% of China's local celebrities, nevermind athletes.
I am watching, it is actually good moderate view from the west perspective. Why do you think it is poop?
It gets so many things wrong and it's an incredibly and highly western centric view of China, with basically no real deep digging into China with first hand sources either.
Basically, just standard fake china expert stuff really.
Su Yiming should of been the bigger star since he was a real native putting China on the map for extreme winter sports and he also brought in 2 medals. I can only speculate is maybe his coach being Japanese was a bit frowned on but it was still nurturing Chinese talent on Chinese soil.
I would put it as Japan economically and technologically and Soviet Union politically and militarily. I actually think that relatively speaking China today is neither as dominant as Japan was technologically in the 80s nor the Soviet Union was militarily. However, it has a population of 1.4 billion and is not done developing yet.